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Karim Jerbi

@karimjerbi.bsky.social
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Professor @ Université de Montreal & Canada Research Chair in Comp Neuroscience & Cog Neuroimaging. Director of the Quebec Neuro-AI research center (UNIQUE Centre) | Biological & Artificial Cognition | Consciousness | Creativity | 🧠🤖 he/him

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Phenomena such as blindsight remind us that intelligent, even emotionally attuned behavior does not imply conscious experience or genuine agency, write Vanessa Hadid, @karimjerbi.bsky.social and John W. Krakauer. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...
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The illusion of AI consciousness: Lessons from humans
Complex, goal-directed and emotionally responsive behavior can unfold without awareness, providing a useful lens for interpreting artificial systems.
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Excited to share our essay out today in The Transmitter, with John W Krakauer & Vanessa Hadid On The illusion of AI Consciousness: 👉 AI can seem emotionally attuned without caring or having consciousness. The risk is not conscious AI, it’s treating AI as if it were! / Lessons from neuroscience. 👇
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Thanks @thetransmitter.bsky.social // also: Amazing animated artwork by Daniel Barreto !
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The international team of collaborators: @venkateshness.bsky.social Tim Nest @annapasca.bsky.social Jeremy Brunel, @yjmantilla.bsky.social @hyruuk.bsky.social @sdmuthu.bsky.social @robincarhartharris.bsky.social Giulia Lioi @nicolasfarrugia.bsky.social (Brest) @karimjerbi.bsky.social (MTL)
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
But there is a lot more to unpack in the paper! (incl #complexity metrics, effect of #music, link to phenomenology + more!). 📄 👉 shorturl.at/suhPU Venkatesh’s PhD work is co-supervised by Nico Farrugia @nicolasfarrugia.bsky.social and Giulia Lioi
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
✨ Key result #2: Under LSD, the Higuchi fractal dimension (HFD) of MEG time series increases, indicating greater scale-invariant temporal complexity in neural dynamics. (The spatial maps of these changes overlap with areas showing significant flattening of the 1/f slope!)
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
✨ Key result #1: LSD speeds up brain rhythms Across the cortex, intrinsic alpha & beta #oscillations shift to faster frequencies. 👉 What often looks like reduced spectral power is largely explained by shifts in peak frequency, not just a loss of rhythmic structure.
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
🚨 Preprint alert! 🧠 What happens to the brain under LSD? Using #MEG & Machine Learning, our latest study led by PhD candidate @venkateshness.bsky.social reveals that LSD speeds up neural oscillations and boosts brain fractality. 📄 👉 shorturl.at/suhPU Some highlights below 🧵1/n
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Quick note from the CoCo Lab: As a lab director, currently mentoring students from Venezuela & Iran, I’m reminded how heavy things can be for international students when events back home bring uncertainty & concern for loved ones. This is a moment for solidarity, simple check-ins & mutual support.
Cognitive and Computational Lab (CoCo Lab) at University of Montreal / although this picture was not taken in Montreal 😄😉
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Editors of Neuroscience of Consciousness @nconsc.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
🚨 New article in #NCONSC Meditation induces shifts in neural oscillations, brain complexity, and critical dynamics: novel insights from MEG academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... @karimjerbi.bsky.social #consciousness 🧠🧪
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Meditation induces shifts in neural oscillations, brain complexity, and critical dynamics: novel insights from MEG
Abstract. While the beneficial impacts of meditation are increasingly acknowledged, its underlying neural mechanisms remain poorly understood. We examined
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Université de Montréal - News @umontreal-en.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
#AI Good news ... for now. "Even the best AI systems still fall short of the levels reached by the most creative humans," according to our @karimjerbi.bsky.social & @yoshuabengio.bsky.social. #ScientificReports @natureportfolio.nature.com nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...
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Creative talent: has AI knocked humans out?
Can artificial intelligence rival human creativity? A large-scale study compares 100,000 humans with leading generative AI models.
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This research was conducted by the amazing Antoine Bellemare & Francois Lespinasse and in collab with Jay Olson + Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social + Yann Harel + Philipp Thölke & Kory Mathewson! Full article 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Divergent creativity in humans and large language models - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Divergent creativity in humans and large language models
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
📣 Out Today! Have AI systems surpassed human-level creativity ? Excited to share that our large-scale study comparing the #creativity of #LLMs to 100,000 humans was published today in Nature’s Scientific Reports. Curious? 👀 nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...
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Creative talent: has AI knocked humans out?
Can artificial intelligence rival human creativity? A large-scale study compares 100,000 humans with leading generative AI models.
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
A high-level teaser of our recent paper on the impact of Samatha + Vipassana #meditation on the brain! 🧠 🧘 Work led by @annapasca.bsky.social - fantastic collaboration with @lauramrz.bsky.social Vittorio Pizzella Antonino Raffone @robertoguidotti.bsky.social @jordanobyrne.bsky.social + many more!
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Analyses by our “dream team” 😁Arthur Dehgan, @arnaghosh.bsky.social & Anirudha Kemtur, with EEG data from collab with Dr P Ruby & Dr Eichenlaub. The symp is supported/organized by @medialab.bsky.social @umontreal-en.bsky.social @reseausommeil.bsky.social + Dust Systems dxe.framer.website
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Dream x Engineering Symposium
A gathering of world leaders in sleep and dream science exploring how we can influence dreaming with precision to improve well-being, accelerate learning, and treat clinical conditions.
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
✈️ Heading to #Boston today for the #DREAM #ENGINEERING Symposium this weekend at the @medialab.bsky.social an inspiring mix of scientists, multimedia artists & filmmakers! 👉 I’ll present a teaser of our unpublished work on the neural basis of dream recall, combining sleep #EEG 🧠💤 and #AI. 1/2🧵
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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
It was a pleasure to share our work on how studying play helps us understand natural intelligence & develop AI at the MAIN conference, organized by @karimjerbi.bsky.social & other amazing scientists. Studying Play: What Games Reveal About Minds and Machines 1/n www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyTn...
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Ida Momennejad - "Studying Play: What Games Reveal About Minds and Machines"
YouTube video by MAIN Conference
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Thank you so much @neuroai.bsky.social for the amazing talk you gave!! This and your previous contributions to MAIN have been extremely inspiring! The whole session chaired by @lune-bellec.bsky.social and Yann Harel was fantastic!
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
The fourth and last Keynote of MAIN 2025! Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social (University of California, Berkeley) 👉 Empowerment Gain as Causal Learning, Causal Learning as Empowerment Gain: A bridge between Bayesian causal hypothesis testing and reinforcement learning.
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Very cool talk by Richard Naud (University of Ottawa) @ #MAIN2025 “Modular Organization of Electrical Fluctuations in the Mouse Brain” @neuronaud.bsky.social
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
🔴 Live: Our MAIN 2025 Keynote #3 Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social (Université de Montréal & Mila)  “Scientist AI: disentangling agency and causal understanding” #AI #Neuroscience #AIsafety #MAIN2025
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
👉 Very cool talk by Lune Bellec @lune-bellec.bsky.social (Université de Montréal & Mila) in the videogaming session on Day 1 of MAIN 2025: "AI Models of Human Brain and Behaviour During Naturalistic Videogame Play"  #videogaming #AI #fMRI
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
#MAIN2025 Looks like everybody has disappeared for lunch 👻 … Next up after lunch will be Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social #Montreal #Neuroscience #AI
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
🔴 Live: Panel discussion #1: @ MAIN2025 The future of Neuroscience - The role of AI ?  with Andreas Tolias, Siva Reddy, Joao Sacramento, Ching Fang + Eva Portelance Moderated by Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social @andreastolias.bsky.social
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Our first Keynote lecture of this year’s MAIN 2025…..🥁 Andreas Tolias(Stanford, CA, USA) @andreastolias.bsky.social "Foundation models and digital twins of the brain" #Foundationmodels #MAIN2025 #Neuroscience #AI
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
🔴 Live : Talk #4 @ MAIN2025 Siva Reddy (McGill & Mila) “The role of memory in long chain-of-thought reasoning” 👉 main2025.org #MAIN2025
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Montreal AI & Neuroscience 2025 started this morning! 🧠X🤖 www.main2025.org #MAIN2025 #NeuroAI #Neuroscience #AI
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Live : Talk #3 at #MAIN2025 Joao Sacramento (Google): “Emergent temporal abstractions in autoregressive models enable hierarchical reinforcement learning” #RL #NeuroAI
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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🌐 Our submission "Reclaiming #Creativity: Cultural Rights, #AI, and the Future of Human Expression", with Antoine Bellemare, Suzanne Kite, @karimjerbi.bsky.social, has been positively received by the #UN Human Rights Office and cited their report for the UN General Assembly!
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Université de Montréal - News @umontreal-en.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
#NEUROSCIENCE “Criticality offers a powerful framework for understanding #brain function and dysfunction,” says UdeM's Karim Jerbi. He's in the cover story of this week's @newscientist.com. #psychology #chaos www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
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The crucial role of chaos in our brain’s most extraordinary functions
That the human mind treads a delicate line between order and disorder is a radical idea that’s gaining traction - and is changing our understanding of intelligence, consciousness and creativity
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Very cool looking paper out today from Jess Thompson and Chris Summerfield, showing how to get rapid (zero-shot) generalization in counting behaviour with a dual stream deep network: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... 🧠📈 #NeuroAI
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Zero-shot counting with a dual-stream neural network model
How does the brain represent the structure of a visual scene (the relations among items, e.g., the cardinality) independent of scene contents (the objects in the scene, e.g., item identity)? Thompson et al. propose a dual-stream neural network model based on the parallel pathways of the primate visual system.
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Merci @lune-bellec.bsky.social & @tyrellturing.bsky.social 🙏😎
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Thnx Erdem!
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Hi Erdem / great initiative, I’d love to be added if possible. I’m the director of the Quebec Neuro-AI research center, and my lab does Cog & Comp Neuro (CoCo lab)
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Hi Antonino! Thnx 4 launching this! I’d love to join.
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Karim Jerbi @karimjerbi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Hi Amy! Hope all is well! I would love to be added to this group.
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